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The Anxiety of Obsolescence: Pessimistic Depictions of the Artist in the Modern American Novels of Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Nathanael West
This study will present the existence of a strand of artistic despair running through modernist American fiction. The consistent failure to positively present the high modem ideal comes about as a result of what I call ...
"More lively perceptions": Irony and Its Sources in Jane Austen's Novels of Impression and Persuasion
Irony comes from mainly from two sources in Jane Austen's writings: the juxtaposition of an impression or a persuasion with the truth of a situation. This can be seen most clearly in three novels: Lady Susan, which shows ...
The Last Romantics: Lady Gregory and the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Beginning in 1896, W. B. Yeats spent more than twenty summers at Coole Park with Lady Gregory. There they collaborated on plays, gathered folklore, and he wrote poetry. She was an invaluable aid to him in recovering from ...
"Sex explains it all": Gender in the Literature of Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost
Gender is merely an attribute, rather than the single determining factor of one's identity, yet Hemingway and Frost both devised their own distinctly masculine personality -- a public image which became progressively more ...
Through Reason to Imagination: The Intellectual Development of C. S. Lewis (1922-1960)
Lewis' literary transformation is, too, complete. The Oxford youth who intended to fashion a philosophic New Look simply because he was "against government" surrendered not only his will but also his reason to the depths ...
Many Shades of One Man: Heroic Personalities in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's heroes appeal to the reader because the heroic development of the individual is so apparent; heroes progress in noticeable ways which are easy for the reader to follow and understand. Plus, no heroic figure goes ...
The Dynamic Interaction Between the Poet and the People in Slam Poetry
Slam is a revolutionary force in contemporary American poetry, and, increasingly, in global poetry. Much of the power of this movement harkens from its ability to draw upon ancestral memories, restoring poetry to its roots ...
Chaucer's Pardoner and the Tyranny of Penance
In the context of the tale-telling game that frames the Canterbury Tales, the reader anticipates a wide variety of different stories and forms as each pilgrim takes his or her tum. What we do not anticipate, however, is ...